adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a secondary infection medical (= an additional infection that happens as a result of the main illness )
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Often, scratching the skin because it is itchy results in secondary infection.
a secondary school ( also a high school British English ) (= for children from 11 to 16 or 18 )
be of secondary importance formal (= be less important than another thing )
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Sometimes we forget that the media coverage of a sport is actually of secondary importance to the event itself.
secondary education ( also high school education American English ) (= for children aged between 11 and 18 )
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She hopes to start a teaching career in secondary education.
secondary modern
secondary school
secondary source
secondary stress
the primary/secondary/high school etc curriculum (= for particular ages at school )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Then it may be able to grasp the nettles of boundaries and ethos and see them as secondary .
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Other variables will be included in your schedule which are referred to as secondary or intervening variables.
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Doctors refer to this as secondary lactase deficiency.
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It will only take a short time before non-specialist schools achieve the same status as secondary moderns.
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As was suggested above, girls have been socialised into viewing work as secondary to marriage and child-rearing.
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There are, however, reasons for doubting whether financial objectives were quite as secondary as these points suggest.
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action
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Restoration of trade union immunity for certain kinds of secondary action .
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The same Bill will ban the remaining forms of secondary action , and outlaw closed shop agreements altogether.
analysis
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Sadly, even information specifically stored for secondary analysis can be marred by obscurities in definition that are not easily resolved.
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An example of this process is the secondary analysis of data.
care
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They will have an interest in knowing that the treatment technologies used in the secondary care sector are the most cost-effective available.
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Goodwill can permit effective cooperation for purchasing of secondary care but goodwill is ephemeral when difficult decisions have to be made.
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In considering the health care provision agencies we may usefully divide them into two main types: primary care and secondary care.
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For secondary care there is a mix of public, private, and charitable hospitals.
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Similarly, there are no restrictions on referrals to secondary care , although long waiting times act as a limitation in practice.
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It proposes that general practitioners control funds for all primary and secondary care .
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How the model will work Funds will flow through primary care to secondary care.
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The budgets for primary and secondary care will need to be integrated to permit appropriate transfer of resources.
consideration
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Any benefits to the library user was a secondary consideration .
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In these circumstances, historical accuracy became a strictly secondary consideration .
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But the quality and quantity of the skiing to be done in these places is almost a secondary consideration .
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Others want the biggest, fastest, meanest system on the block, and money is only a secondary consideration .
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For some professionals price would be a secondary consideration .
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If you do not earn the money, or enough of it, buying goods or services is a secondary consideration .
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A secondary consideration is long term.
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In his pragmatic search for a partner to fulfil a role, love and happiness were secondary considerations .
data
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The research is conducted by statistical analysis of secondary data on client companies and on market prices.
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They deal mainly with the analysis of secondary data , rather than multi-country analysis of survey data.
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These not only involved far more variables, but also secondary data sources in addition to field survey.
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The use of secondary data , rather than primary data collected by the data analyst; 2.
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The principal methods of investigation are the collection and analysis of secondary data , complemented by personal interviews, where necessary.
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Some of these questions can be answered by analysing secondary data and others by analysing primary data. 6.
education
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About 600,000 people leave the secondary education system every year.
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It was also important to restrict access to secondary education .
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Free secondary education increased the pressure on space.
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The medical school and secondary education were randomly changed so that shortlisting was not influenced by attendance at a particular school or university.
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All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years' improvement to bring about secondary education for all.
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Although secondary education is compulsory, parents are not required to send their children to state schools.
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Primary education is actually more complex than secondary education.
importance
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What children gain in terms of content is surely of secondary importance .
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The precise form in which the words in these languages are represented is a matter of quite secondary importance .
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As far as the effects of population change on the economy are concerned, however, the particular disease is of secondary importance .
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The vascular changes and muscle contraction then could be considered to be of secondary importance .
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Wisdom and experience are of secondary importance in our world; it is expertise that is valued.
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A feature of such organizations is that the means are all-important and the ends are of relatively secondary importance .
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But inter-county rivalry will be of secondary importance for the 23-year-old World Student Games bronze medallist.
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The patient quickly concludes that tablets are the real treatment and the diet of secondary importance .
issue
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My final point is a secondary issue relating to the sample letter.
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But precise length is purely a secondary issue in art music.
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But he also said that the immunity of arbitrators was a secondary issue of public policy.
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But economics were a secondary issue to Joyce.
legislation
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The vital secondary legislation on the benefits system has not yet been published.
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I am dissatisfied with the way in which the House deals with secondary legislation .
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It has the advantage of being possible through the enactment of secondary legislation .
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Social security legislation by contrast is a complex web of primary and secondary legislation.
level
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Nor should we think that the situation is better at secondary level .
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Strategies for reducing school size at the secondary level are simple and easily undertaken.
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The table below shows that private and semi-official schools far outnumber state-run schools at secondary level .
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Then you overlay a secondary level of complex behavior that can emerge out of that bunch of working reflexes.
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This was followed by setting up of a voluntary multi-denominational school at secondary level , Lagan College, in 1981.
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At the secondary level , grades seven through twelve, the need to reduce school size is even greater.
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Back in the 1960s, science was taught only to a minority of children-the most academically able at secondary level .
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Enrolments at both primary and secondary levels fell sharply in the early 1980s before beginning to rise steadily from 1984 onwards.
market
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The amount of bonds being offered for sale by securities firms in the secondary market remained low.
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And the faster corporate bonds are issued, the speedier will be the development of an active secondary market .
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The yield on that bond has since fallen in the secondary market to 5. 51 percent.
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Most secondary market trading of eurobonds also takes place in London.
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In the secondary markets , spreads on investment-grade debt were quoted one to two basis points wider.
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Bonds may be bought either as new issue or second-hand on the secondary market .
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In the secondary market , traders said prices of junk bonds and spreads on investment-grade debt were unchanged in extremely slow trading.
modern
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The grammar schools and secondary moderns are similar in terms of class exclusivity.
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The ideology of merit had elevated the grammar school above technical schools, technical schools above secondary moderns .
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It will only take a short time before non-specialist schools achieve the same status as secondary moderns .
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By 1948, in the same county, the proportion for secondary moderns had risen to three-quarters.
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The grammar school still had many powerful and eloquent friends; by 1960 the secondary moderns had none.
role
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More pressing political problems would doubtless have necessitated the relegation of such matters to a secondary role .
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These considerations adumbrate the argument for the secondary role of consent in the justification of authority.
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He has been consigned to a secondary role on the Niners, and he has made a lot of it.
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The town council arranged the funeral and the guild members attended in a secondary role .
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To prevent women from being relegated to a secondary role .
school
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Secondary teachers only were included, since the case studies about which the survey seeks to generalize were of secondary schools .
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By secondary school there will be several hundred.
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Too rarely has it involved the specialist in the secondary school in regular discussion with primary colleagues.
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The place to create equality of opportunity is birth through secondary school , not beginning at the college level.
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Relatively few students reach secondary school , with a substantial proportion of these being in the Khartoum and Northern regions.
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It follows the Government's move to extend the literacy and numeracy strategies from primary into secondary schools .
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In 1965 members of parliament regretted that the separation of children into different types of secondary schools impeded the raising of standards.
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The Yellow Paper, as the leaked document came to be called, was critical of teaching in primary and secondary schools .
schooling
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Many of the requests are for practical, technical and vocational literature for all levels, from secondary schooling upwards.
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Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling , was comparatively rare.
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But this will avail us nothing unless we get primary and secondary schooling right.
sector
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Quite a few have gone on to postgraduate teacher training to teach in the secondary sector .
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Equally important as the links with the secondary sector are the links with pre-school and support services.
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Moreover, in the secondary sector , it was hoped that comprehensivisation would be effective in equalising opportunities among different social groups.
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These discrepancies existed in both the primary and the secondary sectors , but were especially marked in the primary.
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Squeezing the primary banks simply pushed some customers into the secondary sector .
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Key Stage 3 is a vital bridge between the primary school and the upper stages of the secondary sector .
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The secondary sector in the Republic is hardly so simple in structure.
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In the secondary sector they have a long history of influence as local employers.
source
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The emphasis is on interpretation and evaluation of a variety of primary and secondary source material.
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Agriculture, deforestation and the other secondary sources of greenhouse gases are critical to many.
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The distinction between primary and secondary sources will not always be immediately obvious to the pupil.
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Scholars and researchers use the library approach when attempting to write articles for publication based on secondary sources .
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Questions on data availability are likely to be particularly important where users are heavily dependent on secondary sources .
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In his failure to take these differences into account, Leibniz fell victim to his reliance on secondary sources .
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The effective teacher of history will need to use both primary and secondary sources .
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Active enquiry is a feature of the course which places a heavy emphasis on the use of primary and secondary sources .
stage
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To wait until their children are in the secondary stage may seem a long time for delay.
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The sore of primary syphilis is followed after six to eight weeks by the development of the secondary stage .
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A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body.
teacher
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Inspectors said that secondary teachers were failing to build on the success of primary science and were not challenging their younger pupils.
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In terms of feedback from the report, primary teachers seem to have had most and secondary teachers least.
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It will be recalled that only secondary teachers had been involved in the survey in Solihull.
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Gordon Small, one of my secondary teachers-I still see him and I copy his teaching style.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Price is the most important factor for us - location is a secondary issue.
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The government sees unemployment as a secondary issue.
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The study found that women were often reduced to secondary roles in the workplace.
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Tourism is secondary to oil revenues as a source of income.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Free secondary education increased the pressure on space.
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Liver biopsy showed that this patient already had secondary biliary cirrhosis.
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Some accept the secondary status the discipline allocates them.
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The secondary decisions that follow become, in fact, the primary decisions.
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These six secondary ideas in chapter 1 are distilled from a detailed discussion over many pages.